Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. The Perks of Being a Wallflower meets The End of the F***ing World in this dark young adult comedy about four unlikely friends dealing with the messy side of grief who embark on a road trip to Graceland. From page one, Tiger Tolliver grabs your heart with her pain, her courage, her humor—and she doesn’t let go.

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Going into How to Make Friends with the Dark I knew I was dealing with heart hitting, emotional prose that will leave me feel low, but nothing prepared me for the amount of emotions I feltl. An abusive boyfriend, school, a horse ranch, alcohol, that one lesbian chick from the first chapter who made fun of tiger in the most cliche way, drunk driving, music camp, horses, juvie. How to Make Friends with the Dark is a deeply emotional story about friendship, sisterhood, grief, and the foster care system. Glasgow's Schreibstil ist sehr intensiv und lässt ebenso intensiv mitfühlen und Augen feucht werden.

At least the last chapter of Atlas made me angry for how long and pointless it was, and how it’s ruining its story by preaching. k.a Tiger’s tragic journey after her loosing her mother is so realistic so sad but also so genuine, poignant and easy to connect. This could just be a problem with the ARC, but the technical things in the writing were really weird.

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In some ways, this experience shatters her reality as much as the loss of her mother, and as her eyes become open to a much crueler world, so to do those of the reader. The Garcias live in fear until the day both parents are picked up; his Pa is taken to jail and his Ma to a detention center. Kathleen Glasgow's novel How to Make Friends with the Dark beautifully explores the complexity, the isolation, the raw pain you feel when someone you love dies. But while I was at the hospital, I was constantly being moved from room to room and the staff was changing.

There are many books on the market for young adult and teen audiences that deal with gut-punchingly real issues, that expose the darkness in life that, unfortunately, most of us will reckon with eventually. We don’t have a lot, we never have, but we’ve made do with what my mom makes as the county Bookmobile lady and from helping out at Bonita’s daycare. She was very abrasive and I felt strange because I had to remind myself that I should feel bad for her. Don't go to bed angry; make up after fights; always say I love you –you don't know when what you say to someone might be the last thing you ever say to that person. A lot of stuff happens and its important and I think delving into it more and exploring the consequences of people's choices would have turned this into a 5 star read for me.

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I drag on a skirt and a faded T-shirt and jam a ball cap on my head, because the water in the shower is starting to look suspicious, too, so a shower is out of the question. Tiger's mother may be overprotective, but it has always been Tiger and her mother against the world.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It’s in these moments where we say things we regret, where we know as we are speaking that we won’t be able to take these things back, but how they have a way of coming out anyways. Their relationship is based on love and support – a best friend who knows what you need without even asking. Like when a person has a baby and has to learn how to understand which cry means what, like hungry, sleepy, change me. Kimmie is half Korean (her other half is unspecified) and Adam is Italian American; Mateo feels disconnected from them, less American, and with worries they can’t understand.

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She looks around, like she recognizes nothing, like she’s an alien suddenly dropped into our strange, earthly atmosphere. From there you're whisked away and shoved into the foster system, placed in the charge of a harsh caregiver who locks and inventories their food to a lovable hippy who is really doing the best they can with a girl ripped apart from the inside out, and finally placed under the care of a long lost sister barely older than Tiger. My skin is so dry I imagine it cracking and flaking off, bit by bit, until I’m just bone and gristle, and a great wind comes, and blows the rest of me away, until I’m nothing, not even a speck of a person. Kathleen Glasgow is unflinching in the face of pain and we could all stand to learn how to make friends with the dark.Jugendstrafsystem in den USA, Mobbing an Schulen, Alkohol-/ und Drogenabhängigkeit, Obdachlosigkeit, Armut, Suizid, sowie Gewalt an Kindern und Jugendlichen angesprochen und damit muss man erstmal zurechtkommen.